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Subject: Re: Open remote network files from VAX-C
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I thought that there's a blurb in the VAX/C version 2 manual that
remote network files aren't accessible to the "UNIX" I/O calls that DEC
has so bizarrely (word?) implemented. I suppose you could always (ACK! GACK!
CHOKE!) use VMS system services, but that is generally a pain worth avoiding.
Have you noticed what a poor cousin VAX C is to the other VMS languages? It
really burns me up not to find all the system service variable definitions in
VAX C include files while they are distributed with more "favored" languages 
like VAX Fortran. DEC's reply is to submit an SPR! What gall!

Good luck. I'd be interested in finding out if you get it to work...